I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

I have a huge issue with blackface.

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.